FAQ Question

If your paper is not yet discoverable on Semantic Scholar, you can submit a paper for indexing if the PDF is publicly accessible once you've successfully claimed your author page.

We will do our best to ensure your paper is added. Please note, however, that Semantic Scholar sources the majority of papers from our partners and differs from paper sharing sites like ResearchGate and Academia.edu. Our indexing process is fully automated and we cannot guarantee that our web crawler and PDF extraction process will successfully index your paper.

To submit an index request:

1. Visit your author page settings. When signed in to your account, you can find these settings by selecting Edit Author Page on your claimed author page or by selecting Edit Author Page from your author page panel on your ResearchDashboard.
2. In your author page settings, select 'Add Papers'.
3. Search for your paper. If your paper is not discoverable on Semantic Scholar, at the bottom of the search results select Add a paper that does not exist in our corpus.
4. Paste a link to a publicly accessible PDF of your paper from an open access source.
5. Select Add to add the PDF link. Note: If you have additional papers, paste a PDF link and select Add for each paper you wish to submit.
6. Select Submit at the bottom of the page to submit the PDF link(s) for processing.

For new paper index requests, please allow 2 weeks for processing. We will do our best to ensure your paper is added.

We are unable to index papers without a publicly accessible PDF, non-academic papers, copyright protected content, or papers that require a login to access. We are also unable to add papers from social sites like ResearchGate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar, and SSRN at this time.